On Sat, November 12, 2011 8:56 pm, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> On 08/26/2011 05:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera<alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> The "--section=data --section=indexes" proposal seems very reasonable
>>> to
>>> me -- more so than "--sections='data indexes'".
>> +1 ... not only easier to code and less squishily defined, but more like
>> the existing precedent for other pg_dump switches, such as --table.
>>
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> Here is a patch for that for pg_dump. The sections provided for are
> pre-data, data and post-data, as discussed elsewhere. I still feel that
> anything finer grained should be handled via pg_restore's --use-list
> functionality. I'll provide a patch to do the same switch for pg_restore
> shortly.
>
> Adding to the commitfest.
>
Updated version with pg_restore included is attached.
cheers
andrew